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Jordan Cash is an Assistant Professor in James Madison College at Michigan State University. It has become something of a tradition for lame duck presidents to issue controversial pardons on their way out of office. Bill Clinton pardoned both his … - Who’s Afraid of the Administrative State
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Roger Abshire is Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University. President Biden has continued the trend of recent presidents by granting very few pardons during the working portion of his term, by which … - There are no “both sides” to October 7
Benjamin A. Kleinerman is the R.W. Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He is the Editor of The Constitutionalist. There was a recent proposal at my University to have a campus-wide event commemorating October 7. They proposed bringing … - Machiavelli’s Relevance to Israeli Foreign Policy Today
David Lewis Schaefer is Professor Emeritus, Political Science at College of the Holy Cross. Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince (1527) has typically been dismissed as a how-to book on how ambitious would-be tyrants can acquire and hold power. But before succumbing …
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